News at Eleven: [John] Donne starts his poem with an implied

reconciliation of the split in belief between the two kinds of judgment--just as we know the world is a sphere, but think of it as a map, so the judgment is at once, in eternity, both general and particular. It looks as if Donne opted for the solution that has the judgment take place at the end of time, and the dead sleep until then--but in the last analysis he doesn't care.

from The Guardian: John Donne, priest and poet, part 4: two kinds of judgment
then The Guardian: John Donne, priest and poet, part 5: a flirtatious love of God

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